The Holy Mountain

Alessandra Santos (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2017
Wallflower Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-18231-7 (ISBN)

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Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how The Holy Mountain, a poetic, hilarious, and anarchist cult film by an international auteur, anchored in post-1968 critiques, is - at the same time - an archaeological capsule of the counterculture movement, a timely subversion of mystical tenets, and one of the most mysterious films in the history of world cinema.

Alessandra Santos is assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘But is this life reality? No. It’s a film.’ The Holy Mountain and Me
1. Enlightenment for Sale: Production, Promotion, Initial Reception
2. The Secret of Immortality: Afterlife
3. Sacred Excrement: Reading The Holy Mountain
4. ‘Real life awaits us!’: Placing The Holy Mountain
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Cultographies
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	109 x 175 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-231-18231-7 / 0231182317
ISBN-13	978-0-231-18231-7 / 9780231182317
Zustand	Neuware